spernat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...viderit me, atque eius elegantia meam extemplo speciem spernat. Milph. Non faciet, bonum animum habe. ~ Pyrg. Vt ipsa..."Liber III
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...limasset, a radicibusnon euertisset scelere funesto domum."Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim,quandoquidem et illi peccant..."Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...Romano est, qui Ennii Medeam aut Antiopam Pacuvii spernat aut reiciat, quod se isdem Euripidis fabulis delectari dicat..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...praesens in tempus omittat, hoc amet, hoc spernat promissi carminis auctor. In uerbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis dixeris..."